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September 21, 2011 | PTI
NEW DELHI: State-run BSNL's losses have more than tripled to about Rs 6,000 crore during 2010-11 mainly due to hefty outgo for employees' salary and expenses borne by the PSU for procuring 3G and BWA spectrum. The company had registered a net loss of Rs 1,823 crore during 2009-10. According to the unaudited results of the company, the loss for 2010-11 is Rs 5,997 crore. "The reason for widening of the losses is mainly on account of...
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October 3, 2011 | PTI
EDISON: Sam Pitroda, advisor to the Prime Minister, today favored an open and transparent e-auction system for all government auctions and tenders, including the sale of spectrum bandwidth to telecom providers, to avoid any legal hassle and bad name to the government. On his way to Chicago after a visit to New York to address the two-day Pan-IIT Conference, Pitroda, a tech guru considered the architect of India's modern telecom revolution, said: "We have to learn from the...
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October 3, 2011 | PTI
EDISON: Sam Pitroda, advisor to the Prime Minister, today favored an open and transparent e-auction system for all government auctions and tenders, including the sale of spectrum bandwidth to telecom providers, to avoid any legal hassle and bad name to the government. On his way to Chicago after a visit to New York to address the two-day Pan-IIT Conference, Pitroda, a tech guru considered the architect of India's modern telecom revolution, said: "We have to learn from the...
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March 4, 2011 | PTI
NEW DELHI: The government today said the Central Vigilance Commission is carrying out a direct enquiry into alleged 'irregularities' in the selection of franchisees for rolling out state-run BSNL's WiMax network. "BSNL has entered into an agreement with franchisees for roll-out of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) services in urban areas of Himachal Pradesh, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh (West), Rajasthan, Karnataka, Bihar,...
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September 23, 2011 | Viraj Desai , ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Indian Railways, under fire for its shoddy finances and rising accidents, has formed a committee comprising big guns from the corporate world and other experts to advise it on how can modernise its operations. The committee consists of HDFC Chairman Deepak Parekh, IDFC boss Rajiv Lal, Vinayak Chatterjee, chairman of Feedback Infrastructure Services Ltd and Ranjan Jain, adviser (Infrastructure) in the Railway Board. Chaired by technocrat Sam...
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September 21, 2011 | PTI
NEW DELHI: State-run BSNL's losses have more than tripled to about Rs 6,000 crore during 2010-11 mainly due to hefty outgo for employees' salary and expenses borne by the PSU for procuring 3G and BWA spectrum. The company had registered a net loss of Rs 1,823 crore during 2009-10. According to the unaudited results of the company, the loss for 2010-11 is Rs 5,997 crore. "The reason for widening of the losses...
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December 30, 2004 | PTI
PUNE: World Tel chairman Sam Pitroda conferred Honorary Doctor of Literature (D Litt) by the Symbiosis International Educational Centre Deemed University. "India has managed to have a good telephonic and communication network because we were able to overcome all odds, scorns and ridicule during the tenure of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi," he said after receiving the honour from noted industrialist Rahul Bajaj at a special convocation. "Rajiv Gandhi era in the...
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March 26, 2011 | Nageshwar Patnaik , ET Bureau
BHUBANESWAR: Bhubaneswar will emerge as the knowledge capital of east, according to National Innovation Council Chairman Sam Pitroda . Speaking at the launch of Bhubanerswar chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE), a Silicon Valley Group promoting entrepreneurship, Mr Pitroda said if Orissa packages all the good institutions in and around the state capital together well, Bhubaneswar will be East India's knowledge capital. Mr Pitorda...
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September 8, 2010
NEW DELHI: Technology evangelist Sam Pitroda has another innovation up his sleeve and this time, he says, it will change the way people the world over look at money and carry out transactions by putting a "digital wallet" into mobile phones . The inventor of the Casio Digital Diary, which was a rage in the 1980s, Pitroda's company C-Sam has developed a mobile money transaction platform that, he vouches, will transform...
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August 28, 2009 | Rakhi Mazumdar , ET Bureau
KOLKATA: He is regarded as the original telecoms guru who was entrusted with changing the face of Indian telephony. From 2 million phone connections to 500 million now and growing at 10-15 million every month, the first phase of India's telecom revolution is over. But Sam Pitroda is back. This time to help deliver public services using the infrastructure. For this, he is keen to tap into a vast but under-utilised fibre optic network owned by the Railways and other corporates. ...
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April 28, 2010 | PTI
CHICAGO: Telecom technoczar Sam Pitroda, who is also the advisor to Prime Minister on infrastructure and innovation, has been selected for honorary doctorate in Human Letters by the University of Illinois. The University bestows honorary degrees on individuals who have performed exemplary service in ways that are viewed as an extension of their own mission and dedication to teaching, service and research. Pitroda will receive the...
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September 18, 2011 | PTI
NEW DELHI: Loss-making state-run telco BSNL is likely to scrap its 15 million line GSM tender due to the poor response from private vendors to the estimated Rs 5,000-6,000 crore equipment supply contract. "The 15 million GSM tender floated by state-run BSNL is likely to be scrapped as only two or three private vendors have shown interest in the e-tender process," a Department of Telecom official said. According to telecom...
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August 5, 2011 | Harsimran Julka , ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: Top babus in the government are bickering over the billion-dollar Citizen Service Centres (CSCs) scheme, which plans to provide internet connectivity to 2,50,000 villages via web kiosks by 2014. A typical CSC is a kiosk with a broadband-enabled computer with a printer and a scanner. Villagers use such centres to get a rail ticket or a printout and to avail of e-services such as accessing land...
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July 20, 2011 | PTI
NEW DELHI: The next revolution in the IT and communications sector should be in broadband, which will help the government connect with the population and social schemes to percolate down to the intended beneficiaries, Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar said today. "After the telecom revolution, which helps India to reach around 850 telecom subscribers, now it's time for a broadband revolution, which not only will help the government to...
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July 20, 2011 | PTI
NEW DELHI: Properly designed broadband can add 1-2 two per cent to gross domestic product of India, adviser to Prime Minister Sam Pitroda on Wednesday said. "If we properly design broadband...I can assure you that we can add one to two per cent to our GDP," Sam Pitroda, adviser to the PM on public information, infrastructure and innovation, said at an IETE event organised to grant him Honorary Fellowship of the Institution...
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July 18, 2011 | PTI
NEW DELHI: In order to provide broadband connectivity to over 2,50,000 village, the government will probably have to spend upto Rs 30,000 crore, Sam Pitroda, Advisor to Prime Minister, said today. "... We need 30,000-40,000 km more of optical fibre and we are discussing whether it should be laid over the powerline or underground. We also need to get GPS applications ... We probably need Rs 25,000-Rs 30,000 crore for all this," Pitroda told reporters on...
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April 14, 2010 | PTI
BANGALORE: Telecom guru Sam Pitroda today said India should develop an indigenous model for development that focuses on low-cost solutions, instead of copying the consumption-based American economic model which is unsuitable for this country. "I personally believe the US model of consumption-based economy is not scalable, sustainable for a country like ours", Pitroda, who headed the National Knowledge Commission, said. Addressing participants of...
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September 11, 2010
NEW DELHI: With some five billion mobile phones in use today globally and over 10 billion credit and debit cards issued each year, tech evangelist Sam Pitroda has predicted the virtual death of paper money in 30 years thanks to innovative convergence. "Paper money will disappear as transactions become digitised in another three decades," said the inventor of Casio Digital Diary, which was a rage in the 1980s, speaking about his latest innovation --...
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June 14, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip , ET Bureau
NEW DELHI: The chief executives of leading mobile phone companies, industry associations and all key government departments have been roped to oversee the implementation of the communication ministry's Rs 20,000-crore project, its largest ever, to roll-out a national optic fibre network, which will take high-speed internet to the hinterlands. In a first of its kind for the communications ministry, Sam Pitroda , the advisor to the Prime Minister on public...
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May 2, 2011
CHICAGO: India needs to channel the power of innovation to solve the problems of millions of its poor and offer them solutions that are sustainable and affordable, technology guru Sam Pitroda says. Head of the National Innovation Council, Pitroda advises Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on public information infrastructure and innovations so as to focus on inclusive growth and an appropriate ecosystem in India. ...

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